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| November 5, 2012
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Olmert says on TV: I don’t trust Barak with security matters

Israel’s channel 2 investigative report, shows spat between former PM & defense minister as they struggled to cope with growing Iranian nuclear threat

Netanyahu allegedly ordered IDF on alert to strike Iran in 2010.

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In a rare public spat between what were once two of Israel’s highest-ranking politicians, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said he did not trust Defense Minister Ehud Barak with Israel’s most serious military matters, in a Channel 2 investigative report aired Monday.

Olmert & Barak – Photo: REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

“I would very much prefer that this large a responsibility on these subjects (such as the Iranian nuclear program) will be in the hands of somebody else, not his,” Olmert said.

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| October 26, 2012
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Italian PM Monti: Europe’s security tied up with Israel’s security

Prime Minister Mario Monti on his diplomatic visit to Israel: “any threat to Israel is unacceptable,” in reference to Iran’s nuclear program.

 

Italy views “Europe’s security in Israel’s security,” Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Thursday at a joint press conference in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

PM Netanyahu with Italian counterpart Mario Monti - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

PM Netanyahu with Italian counterpart Mario Monti – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

“We absolutely reject threats to regional stability and denial of the Holocaust,” Monti said in reference to Iran. “Any threat to Israel is unacceptable.”

Monti said that the sanctions against Iran were effective and undoubtedly had an influence in disrupting the Iranian economy, and were likely to bring about a change in Tehran’s nuclear program. Continue Reading »

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| October 10, 2012
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu calls for elections ‘as soon as possible’

PM Netanyahu announces elections, which could be as soon as January, because of  Knesset’s inability to pass “responsible” budget.

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ignited an expedited election campaign Tuesday night when he called for early elections to take place.

In a statement delivered at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that after completing a round of meetings with his coalition partners, he concluded he could not pass the 2013 state budget and has no choice but to initiate elections.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

“My obligation as prime minister is to put the national interest above all else, and therefore I decided that the good of Israel requires going to elections now, as soon as possible,” Netanyahu said.

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| October 6, 2012
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Muslim Woman from Tehran Says Iranians Scared by Netanyahu Speech

A woman from Tehran tells Israel’s Channel 2 News: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to the UN placed fear into the hearts of Iranians.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly placed fear into the hearts of Iranians, a Muslim woman from Tehran told Israel’s Channel 2 News on Friday.

Iranian riot police stand next to a waste bin set on fire by protesters

Iranian riot police stand next to a waste bin set on fire by protesters – AFP photo

The woman, Shahanaz, agreed to be interviewed to the Israeli channel despite the risks involved. She was first interviewed two months ago and was interviewed again on Friday, two days after scuffles broke out in Tehran as citizens protested the country’s failing economy. Continue Reading »

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| September 11, 2012
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Obama refuses to meet Netanyahu during his visit to U.S.

White House says scheduling and election campaign are reasons for not having a meeting. WH decision comes after Netanyahu’s declaration that those (the WH) who don’t place “red lines” on Iran, have no right to give Israel a “red light.”

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not meet US President Barack Obama when he visits the United states later this month for the UN General Assembly in New York. Obama will not be in New York during the three-day period Netanyahu is visiting, and noted that the US president is in the middle of an election campaign.

Netanyahu and Obama. - Photo: Jim Young/ Reuters

Netanyahu and Obama.

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| August 27, 2012
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Netanyahu backtracks on portfolio changes amid talks of war

Opposition has plenty to say: Mofaz says PM’s request to change investments betrays intent to strike Iran; Yechimovich: Move is reminiscent of Halutz scandal.

By NADAV SHEMER, LAHAV HARKOV, YONI DAYAN

 

 

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has backtracked on a request to make changes to his foreign and domestic investment portfolio, saying he wants to avoid fueling rumors about a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

PM Netanyahu at the President’s Residence
Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO

A special committee in the State Comptroller’s Office’s approved the prime minister’s request on August 15. In its decision, it stated that given the volatility of the global and Israeli economies, “there is a need to allow additional instructions to be made to the trustee of [Netanyahu’s] blind trust.”

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| August 17, 2012
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Netanyahu disavows erroneous quotes attributed to him

The PM refutes saying “situation in Jordan worse than Syria” & “fall of Tantawi in Egypt worse than fall of Mubarak.”

 

For the second time in a week Israel found itself on Thursday denying potentially dangerous and erroneous statements attributed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the Arab world.

PM Netanyahu speaks to Jewish immigrants at BGU - Photo: REUTERS

PM Netanyahu speaks to Jewish immigrants at BGU – Photo: REUTERS

Samih al-Mayata, a Jordanian government spokesman, was quoted in the Jordanian media earlier this week as being asked at a briefing about a statement he was told Netanyahu made that “the situation in Jordan is worse even than the situation in Syria.”

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| June 22, 2012
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Netanyahu: Defeating Islamism will Take Decades

“I have no doubt that by the end of the century, militant Islam will be defeated,” says Prime Minister.

By Gil Ronen

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

 

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spelled out his long term vision for the coming century in his speech to the President’s Conference Thursday. In it, he said that militant Islam will be defeated by the end of the century, and that in the intervening decades, the challenge before the free countries is to prevent rogue states from developing weapons of mass destruction.

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| June 16, 2012
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Abbas: Release Prisoners, then I’ll Meet Netanyahu

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will demand the release of 123 prisoners before agreeing to meet PM Binyamin Netanyahu, says PLO negotiator.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will demand the release of 123 long-term prisoners before agreeing to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday.

Saeb Erekat

Saeb Erekat - Reuters

Speaking to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Erekat said Abbas wants Israel to free 123 prisoners detained before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

Erekat also said Abbas may meet with Israel’s deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz, but noted that no date has been set for such a meeting. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2012
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Netanyahu: 300 New Families to Join Beit El

PM says: “Those who want to use the courts to damage settlements are mistaken – the opposite will happen.”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a special statement Wednesday regarding the impending demolition of the Givat HaUlpana neighborhood.

“I am committed to safeguard the settlement enterprise,” he said. “The law that the Knesset rejected today would have harmed the settlement enterprise but the formula that I have decided upon – relocating the houses and widening the community of Beit El – strengthens the settlement enterprise.”

Netanyahu

Netanyahu - Reuters

“This is not a simple or easy day. Relocating the houses is certainly not an action that the government is eager to carry out, but the court made a decision and we respect the court system’s decisions. Continue Reading »

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| May 18, 2012
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TIME Devotes Cover Story to ‘King Bibi’

TME Magazine devotes its cover story this week to PM Binyamin Netanyahu, who is named “King Bibi”.

TIME Magazine devoted its cover story this week to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who was named “King Bibi”, in a play on the name of famous blues artist B.B. King.

The article was written by TIME’s managing editor Richard Stengel and it profiles Israel’s Prime Minister, explaining why he is “the King of Israel”.

Binyamin Netanyahu

Binyamin Netanyahu - Photo by Reuters

“Netanyahu is poised to become the longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister since David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel,” writes Stengel. “He has no national rival. Continue Reading »

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| May 9, 2012
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PM, Mofaz form largest coalition in 28 years

Poll: 44% of Israelis back Likud-Kadima unity government deal, 37% oppose it.

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shocked the political establishment on Tuesday by delaying planned early elections and signing a deal with Kadima to form a 94-MK coalition, the widest coalition since 1984.

The national unity coalition formed by rotating prime ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had 97 MKs, which was the largest ever, except when Israel formed emergency governments, most notably the Six Day War coalition in 1967 that had 111 MKs.

The Knesset - Photo: Ammar Awad / Reuters

The Knesset - Photo: Ammar Awad/Reuters

At a Knesset press conference with Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz, Netanyahu said a large coalition was needed to deal with the challenges the country is facing on the socioeconomic, diplomatic and security fronts.

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| May 6, 2012
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Netanyahu: Israel Needs a Leader with Experience

Prime Minister kicks off election campaign in Likud convention, lists his government’s achievements.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu kicked off the election campaign Sunday in a speech at the Likud convention in Tel Aviv, in which he took credit for making people feel safer in Israel.

“We have systematically struck those who planned to strike us,” Netanyahu said. “We took the initiative and we responded resolutely to every attack on us. We proved that we take care of security with force and with good judgment.”

“We did not forget,” he added, to a burst of applause. “We brought home our abducted soldier Gilad Shalit.” Continue Reading »

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| April 24, 2012
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Memorial Day: Israel’s Flag at Half Mast

PM Binyamin Netanyahu attended a flag-lowering ceremony in Jerusalem, saying ‘it cuts your life in two’ when a family member dies in war

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, and Israel’s Chief Rabbis on Tuesday attended a flag-lowering ceremony in Jerusalem as Memorial Day is set to begin.

Binyamin Netanyahu, Memorial Day

Binyamin Netanyahu, Memorial Day - Photo by Reuters

“For bereaved families, time stops when you get the terrible news… it cuts your life in two: what was before, and what will never be again,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told more than 200 soldiers and bereaved families gathered for the Yad Lebanim Memorial for the Fallen in Israel’s Wars. Continue Reading »

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